The large annual student parade on the national holiday of October 28 (“OXI Day”) was concluded on Saturday in the center of Athens, ANA reports.
The public holiday commemorates Greece’s rejection (“OXI”) of an Italian ultimatum on October 28, 1940, that led to Greece’s invasion at the start of the Second World War.
Traffic has been restored in downtown Athens.
A total of 235 schools in Athens participated, of which 134 primary schools, 50 high schools, and 51 lyceums, of general and special education.
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